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  1. Re:Better be for Windows 7 on Microsoft Confirms DirectX 12 Is Alive and Well, Demo Coming At GDC · · Score: 1

    DirectX11 was back ported to Vista.

    Even that was done in a completely different way from the old DX redists, the last of which was released in 2004.

  2. Re:Better be for Windows 7 on Microsoft Confirms DirectX 12 Is Alive and Well, Demo Coming At GDC · · Score: 1

    MS abandoned the old DX redists after 9.0c released in Aug 2004.

  3. Re:Windows 7 on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I still remember the developer preview from late 2011.

  4. I have several on my wishlist for Satya on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    OOXML and the FAT/exFAT patents are some of them. There is this HN comment thread BTW: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

  5. Re:Hmm on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    I think there is the free Word Viewer, and it existed even back in 2000.

  6. Re:Touch-screen desktop PCs are a fad on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I think Win8.1's start button helps here. In fact, Win8.0 release that had no start button did not have this option either in the right-click menu. I personally used Ctrl-Alt-Del most often.

  7. Re:Why do they want to target Google? on EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in Data Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    That being said, I do think Vic Gundotra should probably be fired from Google.

  8. Why do they want to target Google? on EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in Data Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Why do they want to target Google? What are the practical problems caused by the data collection?

  9. Re:No, this is smart. This is to keep the customer on Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015 · · Score: 1

    Two years happens to be how long MS continues support for a previous service pack after a new service pack release. And they do not fix the renderer directly, rather they use https://code.google.com/p/ots/ which validates the fonts before passing them to the kernel.

  10. Re:No, this is smart. This is to keep the customer on Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015 · · Score: 1

    Yea, what is funny is that nobody seems to pay much attention to Office 2003 end of support even though privilege escalation bugs are not usable without another exploit that executed code in the application in the first place.

  11. Re:Should've sold out to soneone else on James Gosling Grades Oracle's Handling of Sun's Tech · · Score: 1

    What is funny is that MS had a Java Virtual Machine in the late 1990s that was infamous for its extensions that led to a Sun lawsuit which eventually led to it being discontinued.

  12. Re:Next! on Unencrypted Windows Crash Reports a Blueprint For Attackers · · Score: 1

    Remember that this feature was released back in 2001. To put it in context, it was just after the infamous export restrictions on strong cryptography was lifted.

  13. Re:Obvious Question on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1
  14. Re:What's so bad about it... on Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? · · Score: 1

    Personally, as I said before I consider it a workaround not a solution.

  15. Reminds me of Jonathan Schwartz of Sun on The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O. · · Score: 1

    It is sad that Jonathan Schwartz of Sun had problems too, as they were the one that pushed SEC to allow blogging material information for example.

  16. Re:The Solution is Obvious on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    FYI, I actually suggested it to kurtsh of MS using twitter and this is the response:
    https://twitter.com/kurtsh/status/365353602195275777

  17. Re:Let me say this from Germany: on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 1

    They later backed off and clarified this rule, as I remembered.

  18. Re:Catastrophic on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 1

    It still shows the product was fundamentally flawed.

  19. Re:It's not the crypto, it's the RNG on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this reminds me of the MS-Novell deal, which was done in a similar way and has similar problems.

  20. Re:Let me say this from Germany: on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 1

    The big difference is that Larry Page is still running that company, though this does reminds me of Vic Gundotra.

  21. Re:wow its a vortex board on $39 Arduino Compatible Boardset Runs Linux On New x86 SoC · · Score: 1

    On a true 486 yes. All that XP requires to run however is the CMPXCHG8B instruction which Vortex86 implemented probably years ago.

  22. Re:Ahaha, not really. on Google Halts Sales of HP's USB-Charging Chromebook 11 Over Overheating · · Score: 1

    What about a MBA without the cost-cutting part? I think Meg Whitman right now is trying to fix HP.

  23. Re:Missing the point on SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors · · Score: 1

    I think the quote from the article directly should be enough of a warning.

  24. Re:Missing the point on SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well the deceptive part IMO is the "bait and switch" part where they showed one filename but in reality download a different file.

  25. Re:WOW on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    Unless you are using Office or Lync which have their own copy of GDI+. Office 2010 only uses their own copy when running under XP though unlike older versions and 2013 don't support XP at all so they don't have their own copy anymore.